Russia, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Poland and Spain have been the largest contributors to our peoples gene pool expanding. Lets not reverse the trend. America only grew so fast in 100 years due to European immigration who had a much denser population at that time. Europe needs to expand and have a medium child birth of 2.5 not 1.4.

Moscow, 10 November: The national census has "confounded numerous myths" about Russia's poor migration status, a news conference was told today by Vladimir Zorin, the member of the government in charge of nationality matters.

The 2002 census showed that Russia does not supply migrants for other countries, he said, but on the contrary takes them in from elsewhere and has become "a country attractive to migrants".

"About 11m migrants have come here in the past 13 years and about 6m have left. This means that our country is the third largest destination for migrants after the USA and Germany," Zorin said.

The census also failed to confirm fears about the migration situation in the Far East, showing that there are 35,000 Chinese in the country and not millions as claimed by analysts, Zorin said. However, he acknowledged that this figure represented a seven-fold increase. Talk of millions of Azeris was also proved wrong, since there are just 62,000 in Russia. Zorin did not deny the existence of illegal immigrants, but said the census figures indicate they are not as numerous as feared. The census also showed that most (up to 70 per cent) migrants work in the economy and are not market traders, the minister went on.

Zorin announced that next year Russia will issue a quota of 436,000 jobs for foreigners. A third of all foreign workers (30 per cent) will be employed in the construction industry, 23 per cent in trade and catering, 12 per cent in industry, 7.4 per cent in agriculture and 2.4 per cent in transport. According to Zorin, "on the whole, migration in Russia is emerging from the shadows". Over 9m migration cards have been issued in Russia since the beginning of the year.

[QUOTE=Theoden]Putin has said that ethnic Russians from surrounding countries are the target group for his immigration drive.
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Those ethnic russians who could immigrate to RF, have in their majority done so in the last 12 years because of the racism of former mud USSR republic gone independent. Looser immigration screening will surely attract more muds,which are
in fact a very large percentage of overall immigration. Ask any russian...they say
many more muds are showing up on the street, and not etnic russians.
Trust no word out of a mouth of a commie! Commies deceive...always....